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(N0 Modei.) V I D. S. MOORE. MACHINE FOR LAYING RAILWAY TRAGKS.

Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

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SPECIFICATIOR' forming Application filed June Ell, 1886.

part of Letters Patent No. 356.777, dated February 1, 1887.

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Be itknown that 1, DAILY S. MOORE, a citison of the United Slates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stale of Illinois, have invented certain new and uselnl Improve ments in Machines for Laying Railway-Tracks,

which are fully set forth in the following specifieetion, reference beinghed to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which- V Figure l is a longitudinal. side elevation of my improvall railway-tracklaying machine, showing the cars loaded and all the'parts in position ready to begin work. Fig. 2 shows Fig. 1 in plan view, but Without any load. Fig. 3 is a. side view of one of the stakes n. l is an enlarged side view of n flat-cor having a carrier, f, hung upon its side and another one mounted on the stakes at, showing in its two views of the carrier the details of its construction. Fig, 5 is a plan view of the same parts with all the parts in place, as shown in Fig. 4, but having the carrier f on the stakes removed. Fig. 6 shows a plan view of the Illililll or machinery car it, with all the framework above the door removed, only showing the engine, and in its front the hangers it cut oil above the rollers 2'.

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The object of myinvention is to improvethe construction of machinery for laying railwaytraclrs for which Letters Patent were granted to me February 12, 1878, and January 31, 1882.

Some of the defect-s in my former constructions were, among other things, that the means by which the ties were brought to their places were not positive, as they moved by gravity, and this decreased or increased according to the ascent or descent of a grade, and would accordingly be slow or fast, or at times fail utterly, but by the present means no such difficulties occur; and in the next place formerly but one pair of rails could he laid at n time, while with the present (lilVlCGlZWO pair of rails can be placed in position at the some time with much less labor, and in every way, with on equal number of hands, a great deal more work can be accomplished than with any other former device. To attain said ends I con struct my apparatus as follows, namely:

I make up a train of flat-cars, o of c, which are pushed along by a locomotive at its rear end. Upon the front flntcnr, o, I build a. frame-work, b c d e f g, of which the part f overhangs toward the rear the entire length of the ear behind it, and at the front projects beyond the end of the car as for as circumstances will pern1itnbout thirty to fifty feet. The frame-work f consists of planks set upon edge for enough apart to pass any tie between them. The planks are held together either by the shafts of the rollers Z or in any other desired way, and rest upon the cross-bars d, to which they may be fastened, and their ends are supported by a wire rope, is.

The rollers Z are connected by chain belts m upon alternate ends, Where they are provided with spurs to work into the links of the chain belts. In Figs. e and 5 the belts in connect three rollers in a. series, the middle one being driven by the tangent belt working into the spurs of the roller.

The belt or may connect only two rollers, l, in series, or it may embrace all the rollers of scar in the carrier f or f.

The side plank, rollers, and belts just described form a carrier or carriers or conveyers for carrying ties. To the rear end of the carrier f is attached 3 carrier, f, by means of a connecting-bar, f and e chain belt, m, connecting the two end rollers of the carriers f f. The carriers f are carried on side stakes, n, which are provided with hooks or pins 0, in which rest erossbnrs p, carrying flanged rollers p, upon which rest the conveyors f. Sold conveyors are kept up as for as possible above the cars a nearest the front, and loaded onl; with rails, so as to be out of the way of the workmen, while the some conveyors are kept down as low to the door of the flat-cars as possible to prevent high lifting of the ties into the conveyors. 1

In the drawings only one car is shown loaded with ties and two with iron; but in practice about three flat-cars are loaded with ties to one with rails, and in this proportion as long a train is made up as the engine can manage.

The object of the connecting-bars f is to keep the connecting-belts between the conveyers tent, and the object of the rollers p is to permit longitudinal motion to the conveyors as the cars come together or separate. A belt, m, from an engine, a, communicates motion to one of the series of rollers Z, and thus sets all the said rollers in motion of the entire series of conveyers f and f in such a manner as to carry ties forward so as to be discharged from the front end of the conveyor.

Under that part of the conveyer projecting beyond the front of the car a are hung hangers h, to which are attached, on each side, rollers 1', about on a level with the floor ofthe car, or preferably on a level with the rollers 11 on the car a, and all the cars a are provided with rollers t, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. When placed on the cars, said rollers may be set in a movable base, so that the rollers may be placed at pleasure. The hangers h are connected and braced by a connecting-rope, J.

On the car a the rollers t are made longer, and finally separated into two parts, so as to facilitate the running of the rail to the right and left hand sides of the hangers h.

The process of laying railway-track by my improved machinery after a train has been loaded and placed on end of track is substantially as follows, namely:

The carriers f f are set in motion and ties thrown upon them and carried to the front and dropped upon the grade, where they are distributed. At the same time two pair of rails are spliced together and run forward on the rollers z, one pair on each side of the hangers h, until beyond the end of the car, when they are dropped, slipped into place, spliced, and spiked to the ties, while at the same time ties are comingforward in a continuous stream and distributed forward from the end of the carrier. NVh en said two pair of rails are fastened sufficiently, the train is advanced to the front end of the last set of rails laid and ties are again distributed backward and forward, another sctof rails is thrown out and fastened, and the process repeated as before. It will be observed that by this means the ties may be brought to the front as rapidly as possible and without in any way interfering with the men or machinery furnishing the iron, and that the load and the force to work it may be so adjusted as to balance each other, and to thus practically lay down a railway-track in a literally continuous stream.

The carriers, which are on the cars carrying rails, are placed high enough to give room for the workmen handling the rails, and are called overhead carriers. They are connected to the carriers receiving ties by one or more inclined sections, as shown in Fig. 1.

What I claim is 1. In combination with a car, a, provided with carrier f, a series of carriers, f, provided with rollers actuated by chain belts, said carriers resting on rollers p, and mechanism to actuate and cars to carry said parts, substan tially as specified.

2. In combinationwith aseries of cars,a aa, and carrier f on the car a, a series of carriers, f, on the cars ((7, carried on adjustable rollers p, belts connecting the rollers of said carriers in series of two or more, and mechanism to actuate said belts and rollers of said carriers, substantially as specified.

3. In combination with the longitudinally and vertically adjustable carriers f, the carriersf, all provided with rollers and connecting-belts, fiatcars, and actuating mechanism, substantially as specified.

4. In combination with a series of fiatcars, a a a provided with carriers f and f, the hangers h, provided with rollers z, substantially as specified.

5. In combination with a series of fiat-cars, a a a provided with carriers f and f, the movable rollers-ton the car a, and the hangers h, provided with rollers 2', substantially as specified.

6. In combination with a series of flat cars, aa it", provided with rollers 10, stakes n,- and hooks 0, aseries of carriers, f f, provided with rollers Z, having spurs and chain belts to actuate the same, substantially as specified.

7. In combination with a series of flat-cars, a series of carriers, ff, having rollers and chain belts, and connecting-barsf and rollers 17, substantially as specified.

8. In combination with a car, a, having car- 5 riers f, the hangers 72, provided with braces j and rollers i, substantially as specified.

9. In combination with a car, to, having carriersf, the rope is, and hangers 72, provided with braces j and rollers i, substantiallyas specified.

DAILY S. MOORE. Witnesses:

L. L. Panscorr, WM. ZIMMERMAN.

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